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Scholars Are Planning a Critically Annotated Edition of “Mein Kampf”

In 2015 the copyright expires with whose help the Free State of Bavaria has up to now banned Reprints of Hitler’s pamphlet “Mein Kampf”. The Munich Institute for Contemporary History is now planning a critically annotated new edition.More ...

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Reporters in the Dock: Cicero, Press Freedom and the Courts

When may the State keep information back to protect itself and its citizens? When must the press investigate – and when forbear? In their latest ruling on the Cicero case the highest German judges champion freedom of the press.More ...

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High volume news - the German Press Agency (dpa)

The dpa is Germany's largest wholesale dealer in news. Founded in 1949, it began by supplying German newspapers and public broadcasting services with news. Today the dpa is a multimedia agency which sources its news from correspondents all over the world.More ...

Print and Online: Newspaper Publishers in the Age of Cross-Media

More and more newspaper readers are drifting away to the Internet. Media habits are changing and the market must respond to new reading tendencies.More ...

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‘You Have to Organise Surprises’ – An Interview with WAZ Editor in Chief Ulrich Reitz

Whither the German newspaper market?More ...

Henri Nannen – Journalism’s Finest Hours

The founder and boss of “Stern” magazine was one of the most important German journalists in post-war years.More ...

Axel Springer – King of the Tabloids

Springer-Verlag, founded by Axel Springer in 1946, rapidly grew into the largest newspaper publisher in Europe under his leadership.More ...

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Rudolf Augstein: The Man who Invented the Assault Gun of Democracy

The importance of Rudolf Augstein, the founder and, for 55 years, also the publisher of the Der Spiegel news magazine, can be seen among other things from the fact that even six years after Augstein's death in 2002, the position of publisher still hasn't been filled.More ...

Rheinischer Merkur is 60 – the Zeitgeist Has Caught Up With It

The Rheinischer Merkur, the weekly newspaper that is celebrating its 60th birthday in 2006, has always been conservative. Today it is fairly normal in Germany for newspapers generally to be rediscovering the new middle-class way of life and a delight in children and the family. Suddenly the Merkur is fashionable.More ...

The weekly press in Germany

Weekly political periodicals don’t have to be current every day. They focus rather on the background stories, analyses and developments that remain interesting for somewhat longer periods. In Germany there are four large weekly publications.More ...

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Germany’s Daily Newspapers

In Germany, daily newspapers are regarded as a major cultural asset and a pillar of democracy. They prompt socio-political debate, helping to shape the country’s public opinion. The eight national dailies play a particularly important role.More ...

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German-language Newspapers in Other Countries – The Last of their Kind

German-language newspapers are to be found all over the world - they are however a dying breed.More ...

Rescue from the Fate of the Throwaway: The Institute for Newspaper Research

The Institute for Newspaper Research (Institut für Zeitungsforschung / IfZ) in Dortmund collects historical and contemporary newspapers and magazines from German-speaking countries.More ...

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A Sunday Tradition: Weekend Newspapers

It is still too early for complacency: newspapers continue to battle with dwindling circulations. All the same, there are signs that weekly and Sunday newspapers are beginning to buck the trend.More ...

Jakob Augstein and his “Freitag”

With his weekly der Freitag – a combination of print and online journalism - Jakob Augstein is breaking new ground. Could this be a prototype for the newspaper of the future?More ...

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Relaunch of the Comic Foxes: The New “Fix & Foxi”

With the relaunch of “Fix & Foxi”, a German comic classic shines in a new guise. The makers Steve Jones and Martin Söffker spoke with Goethe.de about foxes with iPhones, Lupinchen’s emancipation and the digital sales of comics on the Net.More ...

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30 Years of Mockery and Malice: The Satirical Magazine “Titanic”

“Titanic” turns 30. Germany’s best satirical authors and cartoonists join forces to rub salt into society’s wounds with a blend of caustic and malicious humour in “the country’s most forbidden magazine”.More ...

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“Zeitungszeugen” – Nazi Newspapers Reissued

The media project, “Zeitungszeugen” (Newspaper Witnesses), has fuelled a debate on whether Germans are dealing with affirmations of their past in the right way.More ...

Bucharest Instead of Cannes – The new Film Magazine “Cargo”

The new quarterly film magazine “Cargo” delves more into the background of what is going on in the world of cinema – into areas that are often ignored by the arts pages in the newspapers.More ...

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Cicero – Magazine for Political Culture

Cicero, the “Magazine for Political Culture”, has been around since 2004. But politics and culture are wide-reaching concepts, so what is “political culture” supposed to mean here? The following is an attempt to glean an answer from its June–October 2008 issues.More ...

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Monopol – Magazine for Art and Life

The art magazine Monopol has existed since January 2004. It is published in Berlin and has a young target audience. Attempt at a publicist categorisation after reading the issues 5/08 to 9/08.More ...

Kultur & Gespenster (i. e., Culture and Visions) – A Cultural Magazine to Entice and Cultivate

In most cases, cultural magazines find themselves in a marginal market. When they are primarily supported by the commitment of those producing them and not by strong publishing houses or fat advertising contracts then it is all the more a question of how strong this commitment is.More ...

The quest for the human face of business - Business magazine "brand eins"

You won't find Deutsche Bank Chairman Josef Ackermann on the cover of brand eins magazine. "We prefer to use images like a lone horse to symbolize topics like leadership", explains brand eins founder and editor-in-chief Gabriele Fischer. This is not the only way in which brand eins differs from other business magazines, however, and its readership is growing.More ...

The next Generation of Journalists - School Newspapers in Germany

The editors of school newspapers often prove to be the journalists of tomorrow. The newspapers they produce are becoming increasingly professional, with high quality photographs and an appealing layout. At times, their contents are controversial enough to provoke conflict with the school's head.More ...

New-wave Youth Magazines: More than Glitz and Glamour

Spiesser, Yaez and Freihafen are the three big names: youth magazines that are free to readers and offer a fresh perspective on youth culture. Now well-established beyond the mainstream, they spurn the glitz and glamour, celebrity lifestyles, boy and girl bands, style and fashion features that are the stock-in-trade of most youth magazines. Sales are increasing, advertisers are keen – and so are the readers.More ...

Opening Windows on the World – the Cultural Journal Lettre

Anyone interested in global culture and theory, international discourse and debate will be familiar with Lettre, the large-format journal with the lengthy texts and innovative art. After 18 years of existence and 72 issues, the German-language cultural publication Lettre INTERNATIONAL is a unique institution in the world of journalism.More ...

50 years ago – BRAVO brings youth culture to Germany

No other magazine in Germany embodies the term "youth culture" in the way that BRAVO does. For decades it has been reporting on German topics and, at the same time, it was the most important purveyor of American pop culture. The exhibition "50 Years of BRAVO" is currently being prepared for the jubilee next year. More ...

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Germany's Most Important Conservative Organ - The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"

The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"- (FAZ) is Germany's third-oldest national daily newspaper. In contrast to the "Süddeutsche" and "Welt" newspapers, the "FAZ" manages to do without an editor-in chief. The newspaper's prestige has been considerably enhanced by its arts pages – pages on which these days more and more political discourse is being sparked off.More ...

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Conservatively Modern – Berlin's Daily Newspaper "Die Welt"

"Die Welt" is one of Germany's oldest, national daily newspapers. With its online debut in 1995 "Die Welt" proved to be quite a pioneer, as it was one of the first national papers to go on the Internet.More ...

DIE ZEIT - A Weekly Newspaper in Flux

The paper for the thinking reader, liberal, elitist and trend-setting. The question is how can a quality paper like this hold its own in a market that is constantly faced with growing competition from other media and the ever –changing habits of the readers?More ...

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Stern – From Photo-Magazine to Political Journal

People are still not able to forget the scandal over the publication of the forged Hitler Diaries in the year 1983 that caused stern's circulation to plummet and seriously damaged its reputation. Little by little however the magazine has been able to regain its former top position.More ...

The New York Times of Munich – Portrait of the Süddeutsche Zeitung

It is the oldest of Germany's major, national, daily newspapers and has the highest circulation. What makes the Süddeutsche Zeitung so successful?More ...

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Literaturen - Books and Themes in Review

Despite all the prophecies of doom for the German press, Literaturen has made it in the market – whilst setting new standards for literary reviews.More ...

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A Question of Time – Print or Online and how the Internet is Changing Theatre Criticism

In print media it is given less and less space, while at the same time the internet is accelerating theatre criticism to an undreamt of degree.More ...

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The Future of the Newspaper, The Newspaper of the Future: An interview with media scholar Stephan Weichert

The ubiquity of blogs updated in real time to social news sites has caused serious problems for the press – with far-reaching consequences for the journalism.More ...

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Print for Children: the Boom in Children Magazines

According to the newspapers, publishers of weekly magazines are now discovering children as a new target group. 2009 saw the launch of several magazines targeting girls and boys of elementary school and kindergarten ages.More ...

The Most Important News of the Day – At the Bus Stop: Daily Newspapers in Tabloid Format

Newspaper publishers in Germany are always on the look out for new products which will help them gain ground in the fight for readers and advertisers. The latest trend is for daily newspapers which are just 24 cm by 42 cm. The handy format and punchy stories aim to attract young readers in particular.More ...

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